From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 8 19:22:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DC8737B422 for ; Tue, 8 May 2001 19:22:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id ED95B6ACC0; Wed, 9 May 2001 11:52:05 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 11:52:05 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Eric Boucher Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: Samba on a unique machine Message-ID: <20010509115205.B57855@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20010509015519.69058.qmail@web9403.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010509015519.69058.qmail@web9403.mail.yahoo.com>; from eric_boucher60@yahoo.com on Tue, May 08, 2001 at 06:55:19PM -0700 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 8 May 2001 at 18:55:19 -0700, Eric Boucher wrote: > Hi, > > I have FreeBSD and Windows 2000 on the same computer. > I wonder if it's possible to use samba to have access > from windows to my FreeBSD partitions and make simple > task like copying files of FreeBSD from windows. If > not, is there a freeware to do this kind of task. Samba is a network protocol. It can't work when only one of the machines is running. But there's a much simpler method: use ntfs and mount the slice as a file system: # mount -t ntfs /dev/ad0s1 /mnt You'll have to find what slice it's on, of course. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message